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Active KillDisk is a powerful and compact software that allows you to destroy all data on hard disks, SSDs, and USB disks completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders.
It’s a hard disk drive sanitizing tool and partition eraser utility, DoD 5220.22 M compliant. One Pass Zeros erase method is supported in the freeware version.
Active KillDisk supports Verification, Batch Mode, email reports, Certificate customization, and PC Shutdown after completion. Also, it detects and resets disk hidden areas (HPA/DCO). Wipes out all unused space on disks, not touching existing data.
USB Plug’n’Play disks are fully supported. Bootable Disk Creator that allows you to boot from CD/DVD/USB into a Windows environment, and erase or wipe out your system disks.
Active KillDisk Desktop brings a complete and affordable industrial-grade disk sanitation hardware solution to the consumer market. It’s highly customizable for any context, supports U.S. DoD erasure, and fully automated operation. This system is a must-have for any organization with strong disk erasure requirements.
Active KillDisk Features:
- NEW! Active Boot Disk 64-bit boots UEFI Secure Boot systems and legacy BIOS PC
- True parallel erasing/wiping of several disks at the same time
- Users can outline the customized erase methodology using hexadecimal (hex) values and specifying the sample for everyone who goes New!
- Universal Boot Disk Creator for CD/USB media for Windows, Linux & DOS targets
- Latest Active Boot Disk Lite (WinPE-based) and Active LiveCD (Linux-based)
- Portability supplied with settings saved in INI file as a substitute for local registry
- Save Log and Shutdown PC option after erase accomplished
- Ability to send e-mail reviews by way of a pre-configured FREE SMTP account
- A certificate might be displayed after erase/wipe completion and saved as a PDF
- Erase/Wipe Certificate might be custom-made with a Logo and Technician information
- Command-line options added to support certificates and logfile options
- Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical disks or logical partitions
- Supports IDE / ATA / SATA / eSATA / external USB / SCSI hard disk drives
- Supports Solid State Drives (SSD), LUN, RAID arrays
- Erases partitions, logical drives, and unused disk space
- Supports fixed disks, USB Flash, Floppies, Zip drives, SanDisk, and CompactFlash
- Operates from any bootable media: USB disks or bootable CD/DVD/BD discs
- Supports large-size disks (more than 2TB) and disks having 4kb sector size
- Supports Batch mode (might be run from the Command Line with no user interplay)
- Scans NTFS/FAT/exFAT/HFS+/UFS/UDF/Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 volumes, displays files & folders
- Data verification could also be carried out after erasing is accomplished
- The built-in Hex Viewer allows you to examine raw disk sectors and file clusters
- Wipes out NTFS/FAT/exFAT/HFS+/ExtFs volumes from areas containing deleted and unused data
- Wipes out free clusters
- Displays detected physical disks and partition information
- Wipes out deleted MFT records, Directory entries, and different system records
- Support for previewing and wiping Apple HFS+ and exFAT
What’s new in Active KillDisk 24.0:
- Added Barcodes and QR codes to labels and certificates
- Export erase results to CSV log
- Latest sanitizing Kernel version 14.1.27 with many improvements
- Bug fixes and performance enhancements
- Improved Boot Disk Creator: Display Scaling and Network Resource mapping
- The latest Active@ Boot Disk based on WinPE (23H2 code base)
- Boot Disk includes much more storage drivers for Dell, HP & Lenovo
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).
- Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022
- Apple OS X 10.12+ or macOS
- Ubuntu 16.04+ or similar KDE, Gnome, or other Desktop
Size: 113 MB
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